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Question: Have you expressed political views on the internet, might you do that, or would you never under any circumstances do that?
Choices: "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past" "Have not done it but might do it" "Have not done it and would never do it"
Data: % of "Have done it in the past year" "Have done it in the more distant past"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 India24.7%
2 United States22.2%
3 Denmark20.1%
4 Iceland19.4%
5 Australia18.7%
6 Norway18.5%
7 Israel18.0%
8 Sweden16.2%
9 Austria14.2%
10 Belgium14.1%
11 Czech Republic14.0%
12 Finland13.9%
13 United Kingdom12.9%
14 Spain12.5%
15 Slovakia12.4%
16 Germany11.8%
17 France11.6%
18 Croatia11.3%
19 Netherlands11.1%
20 Chile10.9%
21 Georgia10.3%
22 Taiwan10.2%
23 Philippines9.7%
24 Switzerland9.5%
25 Slovenia8.7%
26 South Africa8.2%
27 Russian Federation7.7%
28 Venezuela7.6%
29 Lithuania7.1%
29 Turkiye7.1%
31 Republic of Korea5.5%
32 Poland5.2%
33 Hungary3.3%
34 Japan 1.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 4.212935 X +5.973
Correlation coefficient (r)0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 244333.635938 X +8468.983
Correlation coefficient (r)0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 16.856250 X +76.064
Correlation coefficient (r)0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.950104 X +1.473
Correlation coefficient (r)0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -11.387980 X +12.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014